Tag: JC & the Boyz

I’m no hip-hop expert. I’m just a white boy who grew up in small town Oklahoma. But I’d like to think I know good music when I hear it. I grew up on a steady diet of rock and roll, and got into metal and punk in my teenage years. It would be a little while longer before I began to dabble in rap music. While Christian rap did exist in the 1980s, most of it was pretty cheesy, and relatively sub-par to what was going on in the secular world.*… Continued →

SoCal rapper Peace 586 (born Rene Vasquez) has been hitting the hip-hop game hard since the late 80s (first as M.C. Peace), as a member of the seminal and innovative Freedom of Soul, and through numerous collaborations with artists like S.F.C., Jon Gibson, Scott Blackwell, J.C. and the Boyz, and many others. He went solo following the break-up of Freedom of Soul and released his first solo album in 1996. As impressive as that is, what’s even more impressive is the fact that he’s still been active as recently as 2023, releasing a full-length solo album on his own label.… Continued →

There is simply not enough hip-hop on this site. Let’s fix that! I grew up in a small, very monochromatic town in Oklahoma, where most of the people had my skin color. In that part of the world, there were two kinds of music–country and heavy metal. In the 80s, a few of my friends who were more hip had started getting into this new “rap music” that I knew very little about. But growing up in a country-western family and then discovering rock on my own, I wasn’t really predisposed to listen to rap.… Continued →